Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens

Strings of word with quotation marks

"Lithobates pipiens"

Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.

AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND

Lithobates AND pipiens

Same as "Lithobates pipiens"

OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR

Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"

Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica

Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens

Strings of word with quotation marks

"Lithobates pipiens"

Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.

AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND

Lithobates AND pipiens

Same as "Lithobates pipiens"

OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR

Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"

Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica

Trichobatrachus robustus Boulenger, 1900

Trichobatrachus robustusBoulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 443. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Benito River", elsewhere in the original publication suggested to be "Benito River, north of the Gaboon River between 20 and 30 miles inland from the coast, Gaboon", Equatorial Guinea.

Distribution

Osomba Hills (southeastern Nigeria) to Mayombe Hills (Dem. Rep. Congo) and Gabon through western and southwestern Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea; presumably in Rep. Congo and Cabinda enclave, Angola. A population of a likely new species reported from the Serra do Uige in northern Angola (see comment).